when bloss a big mouth and kill some wary and injured more than one hundred and four days they was tough talk on u.s. soil since nine eleven. and as well as opposition takes its on go to the streets and into concerns the oil rich nation is at a crossroads filming a razor thin at election victory for their child it's. not seventeen days after they gluing mass hunger strike a gun tunnel day began the number of protesting detainees is on the rise with indefinite detention plight driving them to the edge. this is coming to life for most and welcome to the program twin blasts said the finish line of the boston marathon have left three dead including an age old

boy more than one hundred forty are in hospital with various injuries many have lost limbs in the bombings in a situation you know has the latest from the scene of the tragedy. the state of massachusetts holiday turns into a tragedy in the heart of boston just several minutes before three pm local time at the finishing line of the boston marathon two explosions seconds apart from each other killing at least three people according to witnesses who were on the ground during the explosions the situation was extremely chaotic terrifying body parts were seen flying about blood everywhere i was there with my sister she had left work early and she when the first bomb went off there was just a silence that went over the crowd and then i immediately screamed started happening and she grabbed my hand and just start running in terms of the measures that local officials had put in place we do know that a no fly zone was imposed over boston for several hours earlier today now flights

are allowed back into the city again so phone service was shut off for several hours also in fear that further explosions more remote donations could take place and of course several hotels in the area including the one behind me people were evacuated from those hotels the locals were advised to stay home and not come out into public spaces we do know of course that security is going to be heightened in the hours and days to come here in boston and it has also been beefed up in major cities throughout the united states including of course new york city where two successful terror attacks so-called successful terror attacks had taken place in sixteen plots of verted in the last two years and in terms of what's going on in boston right now we do know the investigation is ongoing the f.b.i. is right now in charge of this case but we're being told that police here on the ground are looking into a surveillance photo of

a man carrying two backpacks but no people have been taken into custody as of yet and one of the major questions that remains to be answered is whether or not this attack was a domestic or foreign one and if they are boston massachusetts. no one has yet claimed responsibility for the time while white house was the puppy traces wolf waves of justice and ninety's. u.s. president barack obama said that the u.s. does not yet have all the answers as to who is behind. why they did this but obama said the u.s. will find out who did it and will hold him accountable he would not go into detail he said an investigation is ongoing and that. u.s. federal officials will be helping out boston in any way that city needs as they continue searching for clues as to what caused two to the bombings there were

proximity twenty seven thousand people participating in the boston marathon and tens of thousands on the streets watching the event and also securing the perimeter ironically there were so many police officers on the scene so many emmaus workers this explosion went off and just about ten seconds later a second explosion went off there is some horrific images out there of some of the victims some of whom lost limbs what history has shown is that if the u.s. is attacked washington. and it has retaliated over the course of more than a decade we did have the patriot act in the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks that the department of homeland security was created then the controversial drone program was implemented under the ministration of george w. bush and it was carried out and double down on by president barack obama but what many would argue is that even with all those different measures put in place

through war through surveillance that it still doesn't prevent horrific attacks like the one scene unfolding in boston. and iraq war veteran gyle her say is the bombing will be used by washington to justify an additional security steps as the extensive measures already in place failed to prevent the trash day even with the peacher attack even with the m.d.a. even with the surveillance states that it's been going on even with with that with all the wars going on you know in enough gas and in yemen and in pakistan and all the true program is attacked not to happen i'm not going to speculate on the on who did what and whether or not this you know this was caused by a foreign national it was just it was caused by domestic terrorists one thing is for sure that the government the united states government will use this as an excuse to continue and to try on the trajectory of even more surveillance of even

law our security of even more i mean what's next t.s.a. at at at every marathon t.s.a. in every street foreigner and that's going to be the solutions and that's going to be put forward for the past that basically past decade you know when you when you call some going to terrorists you're basically saying that that what the government does to terrorists or people accuse of terrorists if you're ok with that your opinion with them being indefinitely detained being put in and get no you're ok with them being spied on you are you are ok with them being assassinated because that is what peter does government is doing to people suspect did of terrorism. stay with me for the nation's sunday boston bombing and with more details an anonymous is on that's when a website. in venezuela has kind of

a whole caracas police have five guys to disperse griles protesting death to show results of the presidential election it came off to have been as well as electroboy rejected calls for a recount of sunday's vote the sole mrs hunt picked successor when by a razor thin majority and as a senior reports now continuing with the course is going to prove a tough task for the new president. when the results of the presidential election on april fourteenth was announced there were huge celebrations in this district heavily supporting nicolas maduro the so-called successor of will go chavez tell his supporters tell me that over both the margin between my daughter and his main opposition in this was very small they say that with this victory the spirit of the . chavez continues to live on in a for a very very big job there's a lot of problems that he has to solve even supporters reiterate the fact that there are a lot of problems that have to be addressed such as food shortages medicine

shortages as well as the issue of crime be really want this addressed because they say they just don't feel safe on the streets but it was also with parroting the one of the world's largest oil reserves is the world will be watching on how this is going to be managed moving forward and also model will have a quite a very short a grace period including his ability to unite a very divided country we've seen in the elections it was almost a fifty fifty split between between model and the u.s. and one more task would be to see the military support you know that will go chavez was was a former army commander you have a military support and this is something that model will have to work on but perhaps the biggest challenge for nicolas maduro is filling his predecessor shoes as many of his supporters have been saying a vote for model. in fact a vote for who got shot is. an independent election observer dr julie buxton believes the simming fair vote could spark major tensions around the oil rich state

it's a very slim margin but the prices are observed yesterday was one that was fair it was transparent this is a fully automated voting process obviously this is a very very narrow victory from adorable really to call into question the capacity in the technical feasibility of the voting system i think is very very unfortunate my immediate concern now is that if the united states does not recognize the election process here in the picture of majority this is going to once again put venezuela and the united states on a very very strong bilateral clash is going to be even more problems going forward in that relationship spain i believe has come out and said that it's not fair to recognize the picture at the moment again i think it's very unfortunate somewhat irresponsible for these countries to be pronouncing so soon and we really need to see the order to this voting process before we should be making such diplomatic declarations. at all si dot com as always we're asking you what's next for venezuela and leader nicolas maduro and let's now have a look at our online poll and here we are saying of a hopeful view for chaos in the oil rich state saying the u.s.

will interfere because it's not satisfied with the result around a quarter of you twenty three percent believe this is one will succeed and twenty first century socialism will be established and fifteen percent don't believe madeira steel will be able to handle the job and they call me a well stock they bet and the minority just nine percent of you saying that the country will see more prosperous within narrow so do go to actually have common cuss you out if you haven't already done it. and coming up in just a couple of moments hey on all see as greece secures the next tranche of bailout funds from international lenders in exchange for thousands of jobs also take so they get what they kind of a strain has done to the country's industrial sector plus. israel sixty five years since its founding but what claims to be a big can of democracy in the middle east its critics say fall standing into a hub for all blind religious right away is that slice out of right.

this land. torn apart by conflict. streams. a modern islamic nation. and a peaceful one the stone islam is first of course secular last second. session. i'm sure. in places. and go. well traditions still a model cannot go on the catwalk in a swimsuit. should feel the republican controlled see.

this is the welcome back the u.s. military has concerns the number of hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay has gone up again and now stands at forty five that's still around three times less than the figure claimed by the doors of the captives as the protests news the middle of it said months so detainee just for a show has been growing with security guards firing non-lethal rounds over the weekend and several inmates resisted being put into single cells in the tree such as its force feeding sites you know the tops of so prevent them from dying from starvation in one administrator and officials claim washington still committed to shutting down the facility despite legal hurdles preventing its closure even the

reply traditional detainees cleared for release years ago she's going there to check out reports here's a breakdown of who's currently held captive at the u.s. prison in guantanamo fifty four percent are yemeni nationals that is ninety five captives out of one hundred sixty six just a few more figures a total of eighty six person those there have been cleared for release fifty six of them yemeni nationals three years ago the u.s. suspended all transfers of detainees to yemen what seems to aggravate the psychological torture of indefinite detention is knowing that your nationality something that you cannot control is the sole basis of that ordeal the first lawyers say what they deal with now is collective punishment by the u.s. government based on nationality which is a clear violation of international law when pressed for answers the administration the state department specifically which was. in charge of those transfers they point the finger at congress at the moratorium that the lawmakers put in place that

the defense authorization act that they passed but lawyers say those are just excuses our clients are coming to grips with the cold fact they may well die it's gone or not because the state is unable to transfer them but because unwilling to do so as of now it's not just the many nationals who are stuck in this legal limbo but the rest as well michael williams senior advisor for guantanamo policy in the office of the legal advisor at the u.s. department of state testified before a human rights commission and here's what he said but we will continue to work through the secretary of state and the other arms for u.s. government to accomplish transfers some here have voiced the idea that whatever is keeping most of those people there has nothing to do with the law but more with the fear that even those who had been wrongfully captured and held there for years for no reason have witnessed so much at that prison including torture and other forms of humiliation that fear that the u.s.

may have created its own enemies there you have dozens of people cleared for release and still languishing in prison so they may have fallen victim not just to their wrongful capture but now to u.s. politicians assumptions of what they may or may not do in the future in washington i'm going to check on. the paying tribute to it's fallen on memorial day on monday israel ushered in celebration for the sixty fifth anniversary the. trick reaches fever pitch on the palestinian issue that remains an open wound with a piece of the ocean oh well the horizon ocean is point to see every poles the country celebrates its sixty fifth birthday but it comes against the backdrop of settlement expansion continuing it also ignores the existence of a huge palestinian population of which israel cannot clinton. cold these kind of steps to a certain many are warning and in fact in fact we see this in many editorials they

threatening to turn israel into a non democratic country where doc's style of religion holds sway and there is a sizable and noticeable upsurge in the form voice religious minority in this country that although small does have a very vocal representation and this is why many are saying sixty five years on the country claims to be the only democracy in this region but there are real concerns over just how much power the religious have on monday the country held its national memorial day it is a day for israel's foreign soldiers as well as victims of terror there were a number of alternative memorials that were held these calls for attention to be paid to palestinian victims that they received very little attention in the mainstream media the criticism by and large is that is will commemorate all its wars as having had the higher moral ground when in fact there are very big questions over whether or not many of the wars were in fact legitimate war such as

the fifty six sinai campaign the eighty two war in lebanon and the two palestinian intifada these are awards that are controversial but they are not presented like that in the general israeli discourse although there are widespread celebrations throughout the country there are a lot of person and important and critical questions that are being asked the situation between israel and its bordering countries is unclear the situation between israel and the palestinian territories is ambiguous and the future status over jerusalem is also unresolved many are saying that in fact the situation between israel and its neighbors remains fragile and unstable which is why many are asking what exactly is there to cheer about sixty five years on. national celebration of the north korea is saying move will likely a trade of to knocking the bust of its founder kim il sung on monday the reclusive states on the has demanded an apology from the solid for hostile acts towards it and has threatened retaliation at any time the only young gave

a little hint during a civics is that the test firing of its latest missile is imminent with people gathering in squares with flowers to pay tribute to the leaders of america south korea and japan say the country appears ready to launch a medium range rocket despite iran sanctions barring any such options washington spends huge sums of money on what it calls maintaining peace on the peninsula but critics well i'm not exactly what's provoking pyongyang and joins us now from the institute for policy studies believes as rings of progress in nuclear negotiations but only if america softens it stands there have been a number of initiatives coming from the obama administration some meetings in the past over the first term even though the official policy was of course strategic patience in other words basically ignoring north korea's long as possible china of course is very interested in seeing negotiations go forward south korea under its new leadership are good has proposed discussions with the north so all

signs point toward negotiations on the other hand the united states has also said look there might be some preconditions here and preconditions in the past of basically scotch any attempt to have a negotiation so i think of the united states really wants to see some negotiations moving forward it's going to have to go to the table without any preconditions. and starting with north korea the b.b.c. is under fire for pushing the boundaries of essex for a good story the london school of economics believes the broadcaster used by his students as a cover to shoot a documentary about the secretive state without the university's fault and send the general secretary of the elysees students' union on its peter's day explains why the situation is causing such on. the group we just told that one journalist would be a print journalist only it wasn't until they actually arrived in north korea did they find out that they'll be a document to which they're be appearing on it wasn't until they arrived in beijing

to fly over to north korea that they were joined by the journalist and when we're talking about a trip like this where the risks are involved i think it's so important shouldn't we have been briefed all stages and would be made aware and they just went in this case the b.b.c. deliberately mis held information from them i mean they could have been detained a couple of years ago and to an american journalist were found to have been doing undercover journalism in north korea they're both sentenced to nine years of hard labor obviously right now as we've just heard the climate north korea is even more heightened than it was back then but shouldn't should have the right to make that decision for themself whether or not they're going to face danger and the problem for us is that the b.b.c. made that decision for them and students after returning home they received threatening letters from the north korean government and now we're in a situation where not only is the welfare of our students at risk but also elysees work i couldn't work in researching places like north korea and other political sense of areas which is so important and that's been jeopardized because alice is now associated with undercover illegal activities. with students' lives and i think

that's not ok and for the b.b.c. to go out publicly and say deceit is ok and that and the length they will get their thirty minute documentary i think that send such a negative message especially at this time when the b.b.c.'s reputation isn't perfect and i think they should make sure they have enough trust in their viewers. later in the program we'll a deeper broadcasting in britain. as calls are raised in the u.k. to let known public broadcasters ditch the impartiality clause and present their coverage in a way that reflects the company's news and opinions the details that. greece has managed to secure the next tranche of bailout funds was eight point eight billion euros from the european union after agreeing to cuts that include slashing four thousand public sector jobs almost three times more jobs are expected to be cut next year the plan to later employ younger staff and smaller wages and as the country struggles to get back on its feet is being hunted by an industrial sector

literally clambering to pieces off his tone bottle half the story. cobwebs outside rain falls on the still and silent bits attack his plastic piping from tree infested lawn a cane more than grease inside the machines have been unused since banks stopped investing and the owner of your boss puts attackers fled in two thousand and ten one of his workers also beyond cause did meet the just one softer that he and ninety five other staff owed seven million euros in wages little after short talk i had to force myself to leave so i wouldn't hurt him workers see that they are being made to bear the cost of greece's economic woes this is at the store. and of course the. pain is. very unequal across the industrial northern greece the story is repeated this fertilizer factory used to be

a center of northern greek industry nowadays though by economics feral fowl it's a ghost factory and the only fertilizer coming in here is imported from elsewhere in europe it produced specialised fertilizers until one day the workers were called together and told by the owners that the know how for their products had been sold off and that operations would be stopped. it's criminal that a profitable industry will shut down an industry that produced high quality material and with the. workers now see the cruel irony that since the factories closing fertilizer prices have tripled but it's a wider fear that one skilled workforce is a laid off it's all too hard to bring them back. in the path of those who have this but the unemployment rate here is thirty percent by the years and it could be over thirty eight with no fish and policy the situation is out of control yes the.

workers across northern greece are desperate desperate to keep their jobs to get back into jobs and to be paid for their work it doesn't help ease their concerns when they're in positions like your glasses have been unemployed for three years and he's off skiing in switzerland to martin. calls are being made in britain to reassess the way the country is broke os doesn't bring news to the public and initiative aims to free them from their legal duty to uphold impartiality and lead that coverage reflect the opinions of the owners on his point of boycott reports. the way that newspapers and news channels are regulated in the u.k. is startlingly different so newspapers and online news portals they still regulate themselves that means that they can be as politically biased as they please the example being the guardian on the left in the u.k. all. the london times on the right but for news channels it's a whole different story they're legally bound by off to be impartial and if they're

deemed not to be they can be fined or even have their license revoked but in a day and age when the media is converging and news portals are looking more like television channels and television channels have their own websites is this regulation surely distinction fat and does it make sense well the lord's communication committee have come out with a report recommending that the government removes the impartiality rules from known public broadcasters i'm joined by lord richard inglewood who's the chairman of the lords communication committee to talk about this so if the way that the industry is regulated right now is outdated is that impartiality was for us to complete york city tonight not entirely no we firmly advocate that the public service broadcasters in this country should be assisted exactly the same way as they do not doesn't christianity exist at all well it's a very slippery concept as you quite rightly say but one of the advantages of

a plural media landscape is that different people will approach the question of. impartiality from slightly different perspectives i don't think you can say impartiality means that there is one way of doing it which is the only right way but what impartiality does do is cut out the kind of political proselytizing but you're quite right in saying you find in quite a number of newspapers and in certain news providers from outside our jurisdiction already you can get stuff off the internet from these other companies providing with extremely partial use at the end of the day in the world of the internet if you really want to know you're always going to be able to find anything lord richard inglewood thank you very much for your comment well thank you very much for taking part up next to explore the russian republic of chechnya and record.

oh no hmm lazy bureaucratic and trivial censorship strikes again but this time in russia a bill has been signed into law that will put fines on individuals and legal entities for using vulgar in the media one major flaw of many with this is that they really don't know which words are going to be considered vulgar i guess these words are so awful that they cannot even write them down i'm not naïve there has always been and will always be censorship but this where word list is just silly there is a common expression on the russian internet that russian mainstream media conducts more and eyes ation of society russian t.v. does have all the bloody violent action movies as well as scandalous talk shows which are kind of like freak shows and plenty of reality t.v. where young people pretty much act like subhuman animals in

a cage they've got all that so the government is basically saying that if some guy on t.v. comes down twenty people blooded limbs flying that that is totally ok for television unless they come out and forbid swear while doing it you can show brainless materialistic dimwits sleeping and fighting with everything that moves on a reality show but if they say that one magic three letter russian word then it is over the line this is not a logical way to conduct censorship but that's just my opinion.

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